Thanksgiving The First Thanksgiving: http://www.plimoth.org/media/olc/navigation.html
Interactive exploration of pilgrim home and Wampanoag village. Facts and myths about the First Thanksgiving. Students become the historian and explore what happened at the First Thanksgiving.
Virtual Field Trips: http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcast.htm#Three virtual field trips (webcasts) to Plymouth Plantation – one to a Pilgrim home, one to a Wampanoag home, and one conversation between a pilgrim and a Wampanoag about the First Thanksgiving.
Webquest: http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/play.htm
Students watch a slideshow of pictures with captions about the First Thanksgiving. A list of questions is provided for students to answer. Articles are provided for students to use to look up the answers they do not know.
Winter Holidays
Celebrating Winter Holidays: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/ An interactive scrapbook with clip arts, videos, songs, facts, and activities connected to Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas. This is the site we explored in class together.
Types of Communities Interactive: http://schoolmediainteractive.com/view/object/video/CDFE7C029C4B81224D78F406576D5440
Video introducing the three types of communities with a link to an online quiz and interactive activity for students to create their own community and classify as urban, rural, and suburban. The quiz tests vocabulary related to the types of communities as well as the similarities and differences of the the three types.
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Thanksgiving
The First Thanksgiving:
http://www.plimoth.org/media/olc/navigation.html
Interactive exploration of pilgrim home and Wampanoag village. Facts and myths about the First Thanksgiving. Students become the historian and explore what happened at the First Thanksgiving.
Pilgrim Village:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/pilgrim_village_activity2/
Interactive book (with listen and read options) that explores life in a pilgrim village.
Thanksgiving Articles:
http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help
Factual articles about life in Plymouth Plantation.
Voyage on the Mayflower:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/
Exploration of the Mayflower ship and living conditions along the voyage.
Voyage on the Mayflower II:
http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/interact
Virtual journey on the Mayflower II.
Virtual Field Trips:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcast.htm#Three virtual field trips (webcasts) to Plymouth Plantation – one to a Pilgrim home, one to a Wampanoag home, and one conversation between a pilgrim and a Wampanoag about the First Thanksgiving.
First Person Videos:
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/video.jsp?pID=1649964947&bcpid=1649964947&bclid=648832233001&bctid=648467399001
Videos with actors portraying famous pilgrims and Native Americans.
Research Information:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/plymouth/
Articles and links to other sites with factual information about the First Thanksgiving and the history of the United States.
Letters:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters.htm
Letters from pilgrim and Wampanoag children telling about their life.
Readers Theater and Stories:
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/first-thanksgiving-readers-theater-ideas
Stories to read and scripts to use telling about the lives of particular pilgrims and Native Americans.
Vocabulary:
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/first-thanksgiving-vocabulary-guide
Dictionary of words important in studying the First Thanksgiving, pilgrims, Native Americans, and the colonies.
Talk like a Pilgrim:
http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/talk-pilgrim
Learn to speak like a pilgrim by listening to audio clips and reading their words.
Daily Life:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/daily_life/
Students learn about different aspects of Pilgrim and Wampanoag lifestyles and can compare and contrast the two cultures.
Webquest:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/play.htm
Students watch a slideshow of pictures with captions about the First Thanksgiving. A list of questions is provided for students to answer. Articles are provided for students to use to look up the answers they do not know.
Winter Holidays
Celebrating Winter Holidays:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/
An interactive scrapbook with clip arts, videos, songs, facts, and activities connected to Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas. This is the site we explored in class together.
U.S. History
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=home&topic=0
Commemorating his life in a picture slideshow, articles, and a quiz on the information presented.
North vs. South:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/map.htm
Compare and contrast main differences between the North and the South that affected the Civil War.
Underground Railroad:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/
An interactive activity with photos, audio clips, and slideshows detailing life on a plantation as a slave and along the escape route on the Underground Railroad.
Communities
Types of Communities Interactive:
http://schoolmediainteractive.com/view/object/video/CDFE7C029C4B81224D78F406576D5440
Video introducing the three types of communities with a link to an online quiz and interactive activity for students to create their own community and classify as urban, rural, and suburban. The quiz tests vocabulary related to the types of communities as well as the similarities and differences of the the three types.